Characterization of Anopheles dirus glutathione transferase epsilon 4

ScienceAsia

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 159-165

  Charoensilp, Gulsiri ^a   Vararattanavech, Ardcharapom ^a   Leelapat, Posri ^b   Prapanthadara, La Aied ^b   Ketterman, Albert J ^a  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Anopheles dirus; DDT dehydrochlorinase; Epsilon class; Glutathione transferase; Pyrethroid insecticide

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746032499     PISSN: 15131874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2306/scienceasia1513-1874.2006.32.159     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Hayes JD, Flanagan JU and Jowsey IR (2005) Glutathione transferases. Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol 43, 51-88.
2. Ding Y, Ortelli F, Rossiter LC, Hemingway J and Ranson H (2003) The Anopheles gambiae glutathione transferase supergene family: annotation, phylogeny and expression profiles. BMC Genomics 4, 35-50.
3. Chelvanayagam G, Parker MW and Board PG (2001) Fly fishing for GSTs: a unified nomenclature for mammalian and insect glutathione transferases. Chem Biol Interact 133, 256-60.
4. Fournier D, Bride J-M, Poiri M, Berg J-B and Plapp FW (1992) Insect glutathione S-transferases. Biochemical characteristics of the major forms from houseflies susceptible and resistant to insecticides. J Biol Chem 267, 1840-5.
5. Grant DF and Hammock BD (1992) Genetic and molecular evidence for a trans-acting regulatory locus controlling glutathione S-transferase-2 expression in Aedes aegypti. Mol Gen Genet 234, 169-76.
6. Kostaropoulos I, Papadopoulos AI, Metaxakis A, Boukouvala E and Papadopoulou-Mourkidou E (2001) Glutathione Stransferase in the defence against pyrethroids in insects. Insect Biochem Molec Biol 31, 313-9.
7. Hemingway J, Hawkes NJ, McCarroll L and Ranson H (2004) The molecular basis of insecticide resistance in mosquitoes. Insect Biochem Molec Biol 34, 653-65.
8. Ranson H, Jensen B, Wang X, Prapanthadara L, Hemingway J and Collins FH (2000) Genetic mapping of two loci affecting DDT resistance in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. Insect Moleculor Biology 9, 499-507.
9. Ortelli F, Rossiter LC, Vontas J, Ranson H and Hemingway J (2003) Heterologous expression of four glutathione transferase genes genetically linked to a major insecticide-resistance locus from the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. Biochem J 373, 957-63.
10. (2005) http.7/w3.whosea.org/EN/Section10/Section21/ Section340_4027 hon
11. Prapanthadara L, Promtet N, Koottathep S, Somboon P and Ketterman AJ (2000) Isoenzymes of glutathione S-transferase from the mosquito Anopheles dirus species B: the purification, partial characterization and interaction with various insecticides. Insect Biochem Molec Biol 30, 395-403.
12. Pongjaroenkit S, Jirajaroenrat K, Boonchauy C, Chanama U, Leetachewa S, Prapanthadara L and Ketterman AJ (2001) Genomic organization and putative promotors of highly conserved glutathione S-transferases originating by alternative splicing in Anopheles dirus. Insect Biochem Molec Biol 31, 75-85.
13. Jirajaroenrat K, Pongjaroenkit S, Krittanai C, Prapanthadara L and Ketterman AJ (2001) Heterologous expression and characterization of alternatively spliced glutathione Stransferases from a single Anopheles gene. Insect Biochem Molec Biol 31, 867-75.
14. Ranson H, Prapanthadara L and Hemingway J (1997). Cloning and characterization of two glutathione Stransferases from a DDT-resistant strain of Anopheles gambiae. Biochem J 324, 97-102.
15. Mannervik B, Awasthi YC, Board PG, Hayes JD, Di Ilio C, Ketterer B, Listowsky I et al. (1992) Nomenclature for human glutathione transferases. Biochem J 282, 305-6.
16. Baimai V (1989) Speciation and species complexes of the anopheles malaria vectors in Thailand.The third conference on malaria research, Thailand, 146-52.
17. Vararattanavech A and Ketterman A (2003) Multiple roles of glutathione binding-site residues of glutathione Stransferase. Protein and Peptide Letters 10, 441-8.
18. Udomsinprasert R and Ketterman AJ (2002) Expression and characterization of a novel class of glutathione S-transferase from Anopheles dirus. Insect Biochem Molec Biol 32, 425-433.
19. Bradford MM (1976) A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding. Anal Biochem 72, 248-54.
20. Dixon M and Webb EC (1979) Enzyme inhibition and activation.3, 332-467.
21. Wendel A (1981) Glutathione peroxidase. Methods Enzymol 77, 325-33.
22. Lumjuan N, McCarroll L, Prapanthadara L, Hemingway J and Ranson H (2005) Elevated activity of an epsilon class glutathione transferase confers DDT resistance in the dengue vector, Aedes aegypti. Insect Biochem Molec Biol 35, 861-71.
23. Singh SP, Coronella JA, Beneç H, Cochrane BJ and Zimniak P (2001) Catalytic function of Drosophila melanogaster glutathione S-transferase DmGSTSl-1 (GST-2) in conjugation of lipid peroxidation end products. Eur J Biochem 268, 2912-23.
24. Oakley AJ, Harnnoi T, Udomsinprasert R, Jirajaroenrat K, Ketterman AJ and Wilce MCJ (2001) The crystal structures of glutathione S-transferases isozymes 1-3 and 1-4 from Anopheles dirus species B. Protein Science 10, 2176-85.
25. Sawicki R, Singh SP, Mondai AK, Beneç H and Zimniak P (2003) Cloning, expression and biochemical characterization of one Epsilon-class (GST-3) and ten Delta-class (GST-1) glutathione S-transferases from Drosophila melanogaster, and identification of additional nine members of the Epsilon class. Biochem J 370, 661-9.
26. Ricci G, Caccuri AM, Lo Bello M, Rosato N, Mei G, Nicotra M, Chiessi E et al. (1996) Structural flexibility modulates the activity of human glutathione transferase P1-1. Role of helix 2 flexibility in the catalytic mechanism. J Biol Chem 271, 16187-92.